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CodePath 8-Week Mobile Program

Interested in iOS or Android development? Learn how to build mobile apps while collaborating with other engineers and designers. Work on solving important problems for non-profits with our free 8-week accelerated evening mobile bootcamp. Compete to have the best project and win cash prizes at our CodePath Demo Day. As part of the program, we will have weekly lectures and assigned projects to quickly ramp you up on all aspects of iOS or Android development.

Locations: Note that at the moment the programs only run in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco and Sunnyvale) but we hope to expand to other cities when the time is right.

What do I need to do to apply?

Prerequisites are the following:

Located in the bay area

CS or engineering degree (or equivalent experience)

2+ years of professional development experience

Please note that if you are currently an Android developer, you may participate in the iOS program and vice-versa. We’ve run this program with over 150 engineers in 7 cohorts, and it’s been a lot of fun so far!

The next cohorts starts on January 14th, 2015, and we are currently accepting applications until January 1st. We admit participants on a rolling basis, so apply early!

We'll send you more details after you apply. You can see more details in the curriculum outline to see what's covered during the program.

Free? What’s the catch?

This program is offered free of cost for the engineering community. However, reserved paid seats are also available for companies interested in mobile training within the same bootcamp. This program has been completed by over 500+ developers and designers at Yahoo, Facebook, Dropbox and dozens of other companies.

We started CodePath to create a place for startup engineers to learn new technologies, provide mentorship, and collaborate on impactful projects with other engineers. If your company is interested in training or sponsoring our initiatives, please email us at help@thecodepath.com.

Want to help out?

We try to match each group with an experienced Android or iOS developer, if you’re interested in mentoring, please email us at help@thecodepath.com. If you know other developers that might be interested in this program, please forward this email to them.

About the CodePath Founders

Tim Lee and Nathan Esquenazi are software developers and startup founders with a wide range of experience building products and software.

We love mentoring engineers and after our startup Miso was acquired, we decided to co-found a company together called CodePath focusing full-time on education and practical technology hands-on training for mobile platforms.

We started the Learning Android Development meetup group and have been running free and inexpensive 1-day workshops for Android over the past year with very positive reception and comments. We also manage and run the Yahoo! mobile training programs for Android and iOS in Sunnyvale and Bangalore running hundreds of engineers through our program.

Tim and I have been working hard to put together a program largely based on our own experiences running startups in the past that would adequately prepare people for a professional position in mobile development.

Week 8

Key Concepts: Popular Libraries, Common Tools, Next Steps, Conclusions

Week 9

Demo Day - Engineers present their group projects

What is CodePath?

Tim and I want to build CodePath into a both a school and an engineering career center. We think that the existing system for qualified engineers and quality companies to find one another other is broken and we want to be a part of the solution.

We want to create a free engineering school which is tuition-free for engineers (and for all experience levels) and which gives them access to mentors, collaborators, and quality curriculum to accelerate learning new technologies.

In addition, hand-in-hand we want to forge a premier engineering career center to help engineers at all stages of their careers explore their options, move into roles where they can master new technologies and introduce them to new opportunities. Recruiting is inefficient today and we want to help both companies and engineers by connecting them together.

In short, we want to build a free school for all engineers funded by helping interested engineers get engineering positions at great companies that need them.

Full Program Details

This bootcamp is targeted towards exising engineers that are interested in learning Android or iOS. This is an "evening bootcamp" meaning that all sessions are held after work hours and all of the bootcamp projects can be done after hours or on the weekends. Here's a summary of what you need to know:

Free of charge for students

30 students selected for each cohort

Accepted students will be notified before January 1st

8-week evening bootcamp starting January 14th

In-person sessions held at Zynga's SF office at 8th and Brannan

2 on-site sessions each week in the evening (instruction and lab, 7-9pm)